A Glean movie guide
Masterful Whodunits & Ensemble Mysteries
Everyone is a suspect.
Clever puzzles, eccentric suspects, and sharp wit for fans of Benoit Blanc.
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The movie list
- 01
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc returns to solve a high-tech puzzle on a billionaire’s private Mediterranean island.
World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.
- 02
Clue
A hilarious, fast-paced cult classic that brings the iconic board game’s colorful suspects to life.
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
- 03
The Last of Sheila
A complex scavenger hunt on a luxury yacht that served as a primary inspiration for the Knives Out series.
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game—but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
- 04
See How They Run
A stylish and meta-textual mystery that pokes fun at whodunit tropes while delivering a genuine puzzle.
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
- 05
Murder on the Orient Express
A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie’s most famous closed-circle mystery.
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
- 06
Gosford Park
An intricate look at class dynamics and secrets within a sprawling English estate during a hunting party.
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
- 07
Murder by Death
A brilliant parody featuring an ensemble cast playing caricatures of the world’s greatest detectives.
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
- 08
Death on the Nile
Hercule Poirot navigates a glamorous river cruise filled with jealous lovers and hidden motives.
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
- 09
Sleuth
A masterful and deceptive battle of wits between a mystery writer and his wife’s lover.
A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
- 10
Confess, Fletch
A refreshingly dry and witty modern detective story featuring a charmingly unconventional lead.
The roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit - from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend. Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganized.
- 11
Evil Under the Sun
A sun-drenched Poirot mystery set at an exclusive resort where everyone has a perfect alibi.
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
- 12
Deathtrap
A sharp, twist-filled thriller that blurs the lines between a stage play and a real-life murder plot.
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.